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Collecting pandemic stories

Find out how personal notebook jottings from two flatmates became ‘Journals of a Pandemic’, a comprehensive diary-keeping project encompassing dozens of writers from a wide variety of backgrounds.

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Winter blues and the story of SAD

In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

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Surviving grief when discussing death is off limits

When Iqra Choudhry’s dad died, she lost her words. Here she explains how finding a way to talk and write about loss has been essential for surviving it.

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Surviving a flesh-eating disease

Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.

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  • Sherlock Holmes and the missing box : (with apologies to Dr. A. Conan Doyle).
  • Sherlock Holmes and the missing box : (with apologies to Dr. A. Conan Doyle).
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • Typescript text about the 'AIDS Gedenk Buch', the AIDS memorial book. Photocopy.
  • A Zulu medicine man dancing in order to detect which one of the women seated around them has bewitched their ruler. Gouache by W.R.S. Stott, 1928.
  • The Queen's asylum at Lincoln. Engraving by Harrison, 18--.
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